I’ve had people video me having a seizure when I can’t protect myself or make them stop. Then they put the ‘funny’ videos on ...
Remaining calm is important. Depending on seizure type, many people with epilepsy remain aware of their surroundings even as ...
It showed there was a series of events that tended to happen with SUDEP: a tonic-clonic seizure — where a person loses consciousness and has stiffening and jerking of the muscles — followed by ...
The fellows gain expertise in evaluating and treating focal seizures with or without impaired awareness, bilateral tonic-clonic seizures, neurological emergencies such at status epilepticus, primary ...
Over the course of 3 weeks, she had experienced focal clonic and tonic seizures every 1–2 min, involving the left arm and the left side of her face, sometimes accompanied by impaired awareness ...
In his latest column, Gordon shares his family’s journey after his son Adam was diagnosed with epilepsy, reflecting on the ...
Adjunct (partial-onset or tonic-clonic seizures): initially 50mg twice daily (alternatively, may initiate with a 200mg single loading dose, followed 12hrs later by 100mg twice daily for 1 week ...
including ‘drop seizures’ which result in a loss of muscle tone and stiffening of muscles, and generalised tonic-clonic seizures, which involve muscle jerking and loss of consciousness.